Audacity Forum

I am thinking that it might be the sound card in my lap top. You are probably correct. General purpose computer sound cards are usually built to be good enough for making "peep"s and "pling"s, for Internet voice calls and casual listening to music, but are not usually made for h...

It would be easy enough to put in an option, but the Normalize effect in Audacity already does that so I didn't think there was much point. .... .... Just seen your PM. Glad you like it :D Will add an "unlink channels" option and post it here. What would you like that feature called? "...

im not sure it is plugins tbh.. all versions past 1.26 crash with the Fatal Error message I posted Could you give a list of which ones that you've tried give then problem and which ones don't. I'm hoping that you are prepared to work with us on this - it's not often that we see computers that Audac...

the thing is if vst plugins are causing making Audacity crash why not have an option to ignore plugins before it instals or some kind of verifier ? That is exactly what is being worked on now. I think the Audacity developers underestimated how much bad code is in some VSTs that are in circulation, ...

Synaptic says installed version 1.3.7-3 Latest version 1.3.7-3. Guess no 1.3.8 in the repos (?) 1.3.7 is probably the most current version in the repo. (the repositories always lag a little way behind, especially for software that is being rapidly developed like Audacity). Did you previously use &q...

Are you using the latest nightly build?

Try this. Unplug all microphones, headphones, guitar leads and loudspeakers from your computer(all audio peripherals). Switch off your computer. Is this a Desktop or a laptop computer? Plug in your headphones to the headphone socket on your computer (it may be colour coded green, or it may have a pi...

<<<I think it might be useful if there was a tick box in the Normalize function that offered something like "tie stereo pairs" or "preserve stereo balance" as an option. That way one could import a number of stereo songs and normalize them all to the same level, but keep the rel...

More info please. What operating system? what sort of computer / microphone / sound card .....

Update to Audacity 1.3.8 and see if that fixes it.